Lights, Camera, ACTION!

Sit back and enjoy some short clips of rare Interior Least Terns and Piping Plovers. As a bonus, we have included a clip of Killdeer, which is often mistake with the Piping Plover. See if you can tell the differences.

Least Tern Video Clips

	Quick Time Video (QTV): Least tern flying with fish in its beak.
	Mating behavior - rejection. (QTV)
	Tern walking to and settling on nest. (QTV)
	Incubating terns switching at the nest. (QTV)
	Terns with fish. Courtesy of The Macauley Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York.
	Terns displaying courtship behavior. (QTV)

Piping Plover Clips

	Plover standing over nest. (QTV)
	Plover "feigning" a broken wing. (QTV)
	Plover settling down on nest. (QTV)
	Floating an egg to estimate hatch date. (QTV)
	Foraging of Piping Plover in winter and breeding plumage. (QTV) Courtesy of The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
	Plover calling an alert. (QTV)

Killdeer Video

Killdeer with young underneath of it; foraging subadult killdeer; feigning killdeer. (QTV) Courtesy of The Macaulay Libratry at the Cornell Lab of Ornithogy.

Monetary donations to the Tern and Plover Excellence Fund are welcome. Please contact Ann Bruntz at the NU Foundation for more information. 1-800-432-3216.

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